Safe or vault door holding means.



S. W. PIS-H. SAFE 0B VAULT DOOR HOLDING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 30, 1910.

Patented July 11,1911.

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SAMUEL W. FISH, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-NOR T0 TAYLOR IRON &STEEL COMPANY, OF HIGH BRIDGE, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SAFE OR VAULT DOOR HOLDING MEANS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. FIsH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safe or Vault DoorHolding Means, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to safe or vault door holding means, and is animprovement in part upon that shown and described in mycontemporaneously pending application, Serial No. 548,488, filed March10, 1910, the object of the improvement being to provide improvedholding means for a rotary door, and which holding means may be formedseparate from the door and body, thereby to enable the door to bereadily ground to its seat, but which holding means will be as efiectiveand strong as though it were an integral part of the door and body.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of an improved safeor vault body in which the jamb may be provided with door holding meanseither in the form of threads or lugs, without the necessity ofproviding a rearwardly extending flange to form the jamb, but which bodywill, however, have a relatively long jamb in which the metal formingthe same will be maintained of substantially uniform thicknessthroughout, thus to facilitate the heat treatment of the body castingwhen the same is made of unmachineable metal, such for instance asmanganese steel.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an improved safeor vault body in which the door-way is provided with What may beconsidered a pair of jambs spaced apart, whereby a long jamb may beobtained while maintaining a small amount of metal in each particularpart or member forming the jamb, and at the same time enabling onemember of the door holding means to be located between the jambs.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,Figure 1 is a front view of this improved safeor vault body, with aportion thereof broken away to more clearly illustrate the construction;Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view taken in line 2-2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is adetail perspective view of a portion of the body jamb; Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the door holding Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 30, 1910.

Patented July 11, 1911.

Serial No. 558,612.

means adapted to be secured to the body; Fig. 5 is a cross-sectionalview of a portion of the door and body, illustrating threaded means forholding the door in the jamb; Fig. 6 is an edge view of a portion of thedoor; and Fig. 7 is a view of a portion of the door having lugscomplementary to the body lugs for holding the door in position.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughoutthe figures of the drawings.

This improved safe or vault comprises a body 2 and a door 8, the formerof which may be made of any suitable shape. The front of the body isprovided with a circular door-way 4: of tapered form for the receptionof the rotary door 3, which latter is shown comprising a body 5 having arearwardly extending flange 6. The body and door are each respectivelymade as an integral structure, in the preferred form thereof.

The body front, in which the door-way is located, is provided with apair of inwardly extending members 7, 8, spaced apart and having achamber 9 therebetween and terminating in annular jamb forming surfaces10. These members may be in the form of annular flanges projectinginwardly from the side walls of the body and forming the annular jambsurfaces 10. By forming the front of the structure in this manner itwill be observed that each of the members terminating in a jamb surfacemay be of substantially the same thickness and may also be ofsubstantially the same thickness as the other walls of the body, andtherefore all may be of substantially uniform thickness, thus enablingthe structure to be thoroughly heat treated when made of manganese steelwithout forming the structure with a mass of metal around the jamb,which could not be effectively heat treated. The chamber 9 between thetwo jamb members permits the efiective heat treatment and quenching ofthe casting when the same is made of metal which it is necessary to heattreat. The two j amb forming members are rigidly connected by integralribs 11 located at intervals around the same, and some of these ribs areso formed that they will be of sufiicient area to receive suitablefastening devices or bolts 11 for securing a suitable door holding ring12 in position. The ribs to which the ring is bolted are integrallyconnected with the jambs, and certain of them are also integrallyconnected with the side walls of the body, so that an opening is leftbetween some of the ribs and the side walls of the body, and this alsofacilitates the heat treatment of the casting when made of manganesesteel. It will also be understood that the making of the casting will bevery materially helped by the formation in the manner described, eventhough the casting may not be made of that form of metal necessitatingheat treatment.

The door holding ring 12 is made up of a series of sections 13, wherebyit may be readily inserted in position within the an nular chamberbetween the members forming the j amb so as to contact with the outerface of the rear jamb forming member and the inner face of the frontjamb forming member so that it will be effectively held in position andbe as strong as though it were integral with the body. In the presentform the ring is shown made up of 4 sections, one of which, as 13, formsa key section whereby it locks all the rest of the sections in position,and for this purpose this key sect-ion is provided with an inclinedsurface 13 adapted to engage a similarly formed surface of its adjacentsection. In the form shown in Fig. 4 this ring is provided with doorholding lugs which project into the door-way, while in the form shown inFig. 5 it is shown provided with threads, which may be continuous ormutilated as preferred. The ring is secured in position by bolts 14projecting into soft metal inserts 15 when the body is made ofunmachineable metal, which inserts are located in certain of the ribshereinbefore referred to. In order to prevent the rotary movement of thedoor holding ring should the bolts be broken, the ring is provided onits outer edge with one or more sets of projecting pins, see Fig. 4,adapted to engage one or more of the ribs, and thus afford an additionalmeans for preventing rotation of the ring.

The door is provided with complementary holding means in the form oflugs or threads formed thereon or secured thereto in some suitablemanner. When the body is pro vided with lugs as shown in Figs. 1 and 2the door flange will be provided with lugs adapted to cooperate with thelugs of the body, and these lugs will be located preferably at the innerend of the flange. In the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6, however, the dooris provided with an annular recess 16 in which may be fitted a sectionalring or a series of members carrying threads.

In practice the door will be provided with suitable holding bolts forpreventing rotation of the door, and these bolts may project intosuitable openings formed in one of the jamb members, or the sectionalring be tween the j amb for which purpose the jamb member may beprovided with metal inserts.

In practice the door will be supported by some suitable form of hinge,such as a crane hinge, to permit the same to be rotated in the usualmanner, this, however, being a well known construction, it is not deemednecessary to illustrate or describe the same further.

It will of course be understood that the safe may have any suitableexterior shape, and that if square for instance, the inwardly exteriorjamb forming flanges will be of this shape also, but have annular jambforming surfaces.

I claim as my invention:

1. A safe or vault body having an integral front having a door-wayformed by a pair of inwardly extending spaced apart jamb formingflanges, the inner flange projecting from the side wall of the body andin rear of the outer flange forming the front wall of such body.

2. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending integrally connected flanges spaced apart and terminating intapered annular jamb surfaces for the door, the inner flange projectingfrom the side wall of the body and in rear of the outer flange formingthe front wall of such body.

3. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in tapered annular jambsurfaces for the door, and one or more ribs integrally connecting saidflanges.

4;. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in tapered annular jambsurfaces for the door, and a plurality of ribs integrally connecting theflanges with each other and with the side walls of the body.

5. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyeXtending flanges spaced apart and terminating in tapered annular jambsurfaces for the door, and a plurality of ribs integrally connecting theflanges together and spaced apart from the side walls of the body.

6. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in tapered annular jambsurfaces for the door, and a plurality of ribs integrally connecting theflanges with each other and one or more connected with the side walls ofthe body and one or more spaced apart from the side walls of the body.

7. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in tapered annular jambsurfaces, the inner flange projecting from the side wall of the body andin rear of the outer flange forming the front wall of such body, anddoor holding means carried between said flanges.

8. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in tapered annular jambsurfaces, door holding means carried between said flanges, and ribsconnecting said flanges.

9. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges each of substantially the same cross-sectional areaand spaced apart and terminating in annular jamb surfaces, and doorholding means located in the space between the flanges.

10. A safe or Vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in annular jamb surfaces,door holding means located in the space between the j ambs, and ribsintegrally connecting said flanges.

11. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in annular jamb surfaces,ribs connecting said flanges, and door holding means located in thespace between the flanges and comprising a sectional ring having aprojection engaging one of said ribs.

12. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyeXtending flanges spaced apart and terminating in annular j ambsurfaces, ribs connecting said flanges, and door holding means locatedin the space between the flanges and comprising a sectional ring andbolts for securing it to the ribs, said ring also having projectionsoverlapping one of said ribs.

13. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by a pair of inwardlyextending flanges spaced apart and terminating in j amb surfaces, one ormore ribs integrally connecting said flanges and spaced apart at therear from the wall of the safe body, and door holding means carriedbetween said flanges.

14. In a safe or vault, the combination of a body having a door-wayformed by a pair of inwardly extending spaced apart flanges terminatingin tapered annular j amb surfaces, and a rotary door fitting saiddoor-way and having means for preventing the rotation of the door andcomprising bolts located to project into the inner j amb forming flange.

15. In a safe or vault, the combination of a body having a door-wayformed by a pair of inwardly extending spaced apart flanges terminatingin tapered annular j amb surfaces, and a rotary door fitting saidd00r-way and having means for preventing the rotation of the door andcomprising bolts adapted to project into the inner jamb forming flange,and means for holding the door against withdrawal and including meanslocated between the flanges.

16. A safe or vault comprising a body having a door-way formed by a pairof inwardly extending spaced apart flanges having tapered annular jambsurfaces, and a rotary door having a tapered joint surface adapted tofit said door-way and comprising a body and an inwardly extendingflange, said door having door holding means and said body havingcomplementary door holding means located within the space between theannular flanges, and integral ribs connecting the jamb forming flangesand to which the door holding means located within the space between thejamb forming flanges is secured.

SAMUEL W. FISH.

Witnesses:

EMMA NEIGHBOUR, H. N. VVYoKoFr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G."

